This is just a taste and just the cuts. There are scores more programs that Bush wants to cut or drastically reduce funding for.

We're talking about programs like WIC, PBS, Head Start, low cost health care for families, the mentally ill, services for AIDS patients, this is your life and mine, why, so we can pay for Iraq? Everyone I know will be negatively impacted if this budget goes through.

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Let me tell you. I work for a non-profit and we do workforce development, you know...all that stuff they talk about for adult, youth and dislocated workers? Vouchers for retraining? yep, that's what I do. And that jackass wants to take away full funding for younger youth (14-17) and move it all to JOB TRAINING for older youth (18-21) with the only acceptable outcomes for success being a GED/Diploma AND a job for a year. A YEAR. That's hard to do. And when we obligate the money, say for a 2 year training? They come back and only count what we SPEND in the fiscal year with the stip that our money must be paid LAST after Pell and Pheaa money...so we end up screwed coming and going...and then...based on the SPENT money (which is usually only 1/2 of the total obligated) they fund us for the next year...and usually cut us by 1/2 to 3/4. And we have SONY laying off BIG time - it's western PA for crying out loud. It just sucks. And now, they want me to pay a co-pay for Evan's Medical Assistance for his autism. Some families can't afford the co-pay because they make too much. My poverty isn't even enough. Isn't that awful?